For more than a century, Alice, Wendy and Dorothy have been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland and Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now like us, these three lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfilment. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel.
Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest.
Similar to DC's Absolute editions of Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls will be published as three, 112-page, super-deluxe, oversized hardcover volumes, all sealed in a gorgeous slipcase - it is the most expensive book the cool indy publisher's Top Shelf have produced; comics meet art meet folklore meet porn and sensualism. It will truly be an edition for the ages - I want one; you want one too, don't you?
Top Shelf, 3 oversized hardbacks in a slipcase 336 pages (total), published August 2006
MATURE READERS
From the Kirkus review: The word 'fantasy' carries its full erotic implications when applied to Alan Moore's bewitching masterpiece, Lost Girls. For more than 15 years, the British writer known for Watchmen and V for Vendetta has worked with American artist Melinda Gebbie on a provocative story meant to engage, titillate and disarm its readers. Lost Girls depicts its radiant heroines - Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Wendy from Peter Pan and Dorothy from The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz - in every imaginable sensual coupling; Gebbie's spectacular, Art Nouveau-inspired artwork electrifies.
This Kama Sutra for the comic-book set should elicit fervent reactions not only for its sly premise but also for its intellectual commentary on free speech, Western prudishness and the futility of war. "Something that's never been done before," says Top Shelf publisher Chris Staros, who convinced the creators to complete it. In Alan's words, "it's an endeavour to make pornography literary, thoughtful and human".
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